unique design reflecting the subprime mortgage design. Subprime securitization tranches were often sold to CDOs, which were …

Mortgage cramdown enabled bankruptcy judges to discharge the underwater portion of a mortgage during Chapter 13 …

We analyze mortgage lenders' behavior with respect to shale gas risk during the period of the U.S. shale gas boom … scrutiny, to $3,137, or 1.6% of profit earned on an average mortgage, afterwards. Our approach provides an alternative to the … decisions of mortgage professionals …

a house in coastal areas may be at increasing risk of defaulting on their mortgage. Commercial banks have the ability to … Mortgage Association, commonly known as Fannie Mae, and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, known as Freddie Mac. In … or default. A structurally estimated model of mortgage pricing with asymmetric information suggests that bunching at the …

This paper explores the practice of mortgage refinancing in a dynamic competitive lending model with risky borrowers … prevents the mortgage pools from becoming disproportionately composed of the riskiest borrowers over time. Mortgages with … prepayment penalties allow lenders to lower mortgage rates and extend credit to the least creditworthy, with the largest benefits …

In this paper we examine the relationship between homeowners' bankruptcy decisions and their mortgage default decisions …

We present a simple, linear asset pricing model of the cross section of Mortgage-Backed Security (MBS) returns in which …

We introduce a reduced-form modeling framework for mortgage-backed securities in which we solve for the implied … actual prepayments, providing direct evidence of significant prepayment risk premia in mortgage-backed security prices. We … risk. We also find evidence that mortgage-backed security prices were significantly affected by Fannie Mae credit risk and …

Surprisingly little is known about the importance of mortgage payment size for default, as efforts to measure the …